RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 6

RELIEF FOR EX-SOLDIERS.

In your editorial note under the above head* ing of December 8 you quoted a statement from the secretary of*the Patriotic Assoeiatiou that they hold a big balance in the sick anil wounded fund and are spending this money freely for the purpose for which it was subscribed. I am Buffering from over fifty per cent war disability and am married with a wife and four children. I applied for a little assistance to enable mc to get a few extras for Christinas, for which my pension did not allow, but was turned down.* Would von call this generous treatment I * 12 BAR. fTlie secretary of the Patriotic Association states that any sick or wounded soldier who is in necessitous circumstances is granted assistance if the circumstances of Ins case warrant it. The policy of the association is to supplement war pensions and render other assistance where deemed necessary. Any soldier who is in such circumstances due to war disability can rely 011 sympathetic treatment. Applications for assistance from fit men have been more than usually numerous owin; to the prevailing unemployment, hut they have had to be declined as the association's B fund, established to assist cases of this nature, is practically exhausted. Only soldiers suffering from war disability are eligible for assistance from the A fmid/whicu is a provincial sick and wounded soldiers' fund.—Ed.]